August 19, 2006 - San Francisco Bay Area Nonprofit Boot Camp

Craigslist Foundation[1] is hosting the Third Annual San Francisco Bay Area Boot Camp to be held at the University of California, Berkeley on Saturday, August 19, 2006. The Berkeley event will have almoost three times the number of participants as in New York and twice as many thematic tracks.

June 21 - September 22, 2006 - Free Summer School

With an opening theme of Discovering and Gathering a Wealth of Knowledge and a commitment to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) and related United Nations Decades, a Free Summer School will be in session between the 2006 Summer Solstice on June 21 and the Fall Equinox on September 22. The Free Summer School is being hosted by Seasons of Peace Cooperation Circles[2] in support of the NGO Committee on Education of CONGO - the Conference Of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations [3]. The NGO Committee on Education has made a decade-long commitment to support the United Nations Decade on Sustainable Development, and is seeking to draw on, and gather together, the vast wealth of knowledge and experience in the hearts and minds of people and organizations that make up the rapidly evolving NGO community / civil society.

The Free Summer School is being hosted on a holistic evolving information ecology platform that has emerged in the course of the systematic use and promotion of information and communications technology and appreciation of the transformative significance of the zero-based properties of information - zero mass, zero physical size, and virtually zero travel time - that are the "material" basis for the zero marginal cost of digital goods.

June 10, 2006 - New York Nonprofit Boot Camp

Craigslist Foundation[4] will be hosting the first New York City Nonprofit Boot Camp on Saturday June 10, 2006 at the NYU Stern School of Business, an all day event from 9 am to 9 pm. The registration fee of $50 includes all meals and a closing reception. For more details on this event and to register, visit www.craigslistfoundation.org/index.php?page=NY

Craigslist Foundation has organized several very successful Boot Camps in San Francisco, and the first New York City Boot Camp promises to be a remarkable gathering of people and organizations who are invvolved in a nonprofit networked information economy.

May 13-26, 2006 - UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

The Fifth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues is taking place at UN Headquarters in New York. There is active interest in the development of an online forum in support of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the Second International Decade on the World's Indigenous People. See organizational domains for a preliminary outline of a framework for such an online forum. For more information on the Permanent forum, visit www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii

April 14, 2006 - Launch of The Wealth of Networks

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
540 W. 21st Street, New York, NY

Please join Yale Professor Yochai Benkler for the launch of his new book, "The Wealth of Networks". The book explains how a new form of distributed collaboration is transforming the world economy, heralded by innovations such as:

Open Source software like Linux and Apache that have surpassed commercial software made by huge corporations

A free, collaboratively authored encyclopedia called Wikipedia that rivals Encyclopedia Britannica, and

Volunteer research projects like NASA Clicks that are as accurate as the work of paid scientists.

Benkler does not see these projects as isolated examples, but rather as exemplars of an emerging mode of economic production. His book shows why labor done outside the constraints of free markets and giant corporations can still have a huge impact on the economy and social relations. He argues that a "third mode of production" offers the promise of a more free society, but only if we make the right collective decisions.

The evening started at 6pm with wine, cheese, and informal conversation. At 7pm Jonah Peretti, Eyebeam's Director of R&D, introduced Benkler and gave a quick tour of important and emerging open source and collaborative projects. Then at 7:15pm, Benkler gave a brief talk presenting the core ideas of his new book.